In a Vase on Monday: Miniature Forest

Each Monday I join Cathy at Rambling in the Garden for her weekly meme. While Cathy’s late winter garden is looking beautiful, with snowdrops and hellebores in full bloom, we awoke to more snow today, covering any plants that were considering emerging but hadn’t quite decided! Well, fortunately I managed to find some wintery bits and pieces yesterday…

My witch hazel ‘Diane’ has been flowering for about a week now, and a small twig could be spared for my ikebana vase. To complement the orangey red, I cut a few red stems of Cornus and felt it made my witch hazel look as if it is in a forest of red-barked trees!

The Hellebores at the base are from a plant growing under cover and wrapped in fleece in the greenhouse. I bought this in full flower in the autumn (!), but the early onset of winter in November meant it never got planted out. It is nice to have something in the almost empty greenhouse though, and the flowers are beautiful even when they go over and start to form seeds. 😄

I wonder if your garden is showing signs of life yet?

Wishing you all some winter sunshine!

 

 

 



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